Euripides Quotes About Children
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The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
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Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.
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The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.
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All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!
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Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.
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A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.
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If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.
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Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.
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What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
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All men know their children mean more than life.
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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
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Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.
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Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.
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Women's love is for their men, not for their children.
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A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.
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Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.
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Noble fathers have noble children.
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